When Apple launched its iMac G3, instead of using beige or grey as was de rigueur for its contemporaries, Apple decided to offer a variety of bright colours.
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I, for one, own six Apple devices (iPhone, iPod, iPad, MacBook Air, iMac and Apple tv).
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Compare this with Apple's iMac, which has seen two dramatically different form factors since incarnation.
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Apple's iMac was the first computer, for example, to boast USB ports.
As Apple's iMac computer - which has a handle but no floppy drive and comes in fruit colors - continues to win new customers, an industry rethink is underway.
Previously, Mike was a vice president with Apple where he worked from 1991 to 2007 and made significant contributions to the iMac, Apple TV, and iPhone programs.
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Palm Executive Chairman Jon Rubinstein led the teams that created the iPod and the iMac at Apple.
The machine is designed to take on Apple's latest iMac, and Gateway 's iMac knockoff, the Gateway One.
Making gadgets in a rainbow of Lifesaver candy colors was a winning strategy for Apple with its original iMac G3s.
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The desktop Apple computers, the iMac and Mac mini, will include a combination of hard disk drives and flash memory called a Fusion drive.
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Apple's new iMac, its flagship desktop computer, was released Friday.
The company supplies components for Apple Computer's iMac, a hot seller in the U.S. But Bernard Tan of Merrill Lynch has downgraded NatSteel's short-term rating to neutral, although he still has a long-term buy on it.
This week Apple will introduce a new iMac computer set for release on Nov. 30th.
As it struggles to meet demand for its new iMac computer, Apple Computer is both expanding and contracting its retail universe.
Cook, speaking on the earnings call Jan. 23, blamed a dip in Mac sales to limited supply of the new iMac desktop models Apple started shipping in November and December.
Based on that illustration up there, we're going to hazard a guess it could be used in Apple's MacBook and iMac lines, though the patent application doesn't explicitly exclude mobile devices, either. (In fact, the filing acknowledges a camera like this could be used in, ahem, a television.) What we'd really like to know is how easy it would be for the user to active the privacy mode.
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The thing was as cute as the iMac G3s were, Apple never dared say that these iMacs were aimed at women.
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Distinctive white boxes labeled "iMac" and bearing the Apple logo were stacked 10 deep alongside 20 pallets of identical unmarked brown boxes roughly stacked 10 deep and four abreast.
It led him to his experiments with the NeXT computer and then to the iMac after he returned to Apple, when he moved further beyond the original narrow view of the personal computer by renouncing the ubiquitous putty-colored box with a monitor on top of it.
Rumor has it, Apple will soon unveil its new line of iMac computers.
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On Tuesday, October 23, Apple announced several new products including a new iMac, MacBook Pro, and iPads.
Since the iMac was unveiled in May, Apple says new Mac versions of more than 175 consumer-oriented software titles have been announced.
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The iMac alone can't rescue Apple, even if it sells well.
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In 1985, Mr Jobs left the company after falling out with colleagues, only to return in 1997 and begin Apple's transformation by launching the colourful iMac computer.
And Digitimes reports that as well as a revision to the iPad, Apple plans to upgrade its MacBook Pro and iMac in the first half of 2011.
September demand from the education market--long Apple's mainstay--for the iMac was a disappointment, and the new PowerMac G4 cube hasn't jumped off store shelves the way Apple (and reviewers) predicted.
Superficially the stories heralded the introduction of Apple's retro-futuristic-looking iMac desktop (see "Back to the future"), but fresh off two back-to-back profitable quarters (the first in three years) the underlying message was clear: Apple is back.
Sure the iMac might look nice sitting next to your Barcalounger, but considering the lack of Apple software on the market (see "Apple offers sizzle"), looking at it is all you are likely to do with your iMac.
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